13 more hours of Game of Thrones….
Overlord
The countdown has begun… Game of Thrones show creator David Benioff has told the world: “It’s two more seasons we’re talking about From pretty close to the beginning, we talked…
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Worldbuilding: Don’t Neglect The Landscape
Geoff Matthews
You have your story, your plot, your characters, sub-texts and themes. On a piece, or several, of paper you have sketched out a map, worked out the travel distances and…
The Last of a Kind: Extinction in Fantasy
Nicola Alter
We often hear about extinction in the real world – whether it’s a dodo that’s already died out, a rhinoceros that’s on the brink of extinction, a bluefin tuna that’s…
2016 Locus Award Winners Announced!
Jennie Ivins
Yesterday the Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners of the 2016 Locus Awards during the Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle, WA. The awards are chosen by a survey of…
Graphic Fantasy: Catching up on Comics
Eric Christensen
Step into any forum, whether on Fantasy-Faction or another site, and conversation often turns to recommendations. “I liked X, but not Y. What should I pick up next?” Unless X…
Character Group Dynamics
Aaron Miles
One of the most important tasks of a writer is to get the reader to engage with their characters, but almost as important is how your characters engage with each…
Where did Stranger of Tempest come from?
Tom Lloyd
I’m sure you’ve all heard of Stranger of Tempest by now… It has perhaps the most stand-out cover of the year and is being hailed as relentless, fun and unputdownable…
What I Learned as a Tabletop Gamer
Trent Cannon
In news that will shock precisely no one that has spoken to me for any amount of time, I am a massive nerd. Like, huge. I am the kind of…
J. K. Rowling is Better than Shakespeare
Max Freeman
Tell me if you’ve ever read these stories before: – A young male sociopath disapproves of everyone and everything around him, including any of his romantic interests. He changes nothing,…
British Fantasy Awards 2016 Short List – And We’re On It!
Hello everyone! I am super excited to announce that Fantasy-Faction has once again been nominated for the British Fantasy Award for Best Non-Fiction! That in and of itself would be…
Everyone’s Got A Point (of View) – Part One: First Person
I’ve never liked violence. Doesn’t mean I’m not good at it, I’m just not fond of it. But survival’s become something of a habit and if that means getting in…
Kojiki by Keith Yatsuhashi – Cover Reveal & Excerpt
Here on Fantasy-Faction we have hosted many a cover reveal. Of those covers a good deal of my personal favs have been from Angry Robot Books. Today’s reveal is no…